When Swedish-born artist Siri Berg started making assemblage pieces out of discarded industrial parts… Siri Berg: TechnoFemme By Rachel Sommerstein Siri Berg, Kenzau. Techno. Mouseballs. Mixed media on wood, 12 x 12. 2004 When Swedish-born artist Siri Berg started making assemblage pieces out of discarded industrial parts — technological trash — "everyone was speaking of […]

Documentary photography rides the fine line between journalism and art. Out of Africa / "Guy Tallim" Edited by DaimlerChrystler AG, Berlin By Zhanna Veyts Documentary photography Guy Tillim, Edited by DaimlerChrystler AG, Berlin, 2004. Documentary photography rides the fine line between journalism and art. In bridging the two into indissoluble images, it incites a perpetual […]

Urs Fischer was born in Zurich in 1973, and has since lived in Amsterdam, London and Los Angles. SOME OTHER SPRING: Urs Fischer Part 1 By Horace Brockington INSTALLATION VIEW ” KIR ROYAL” KUNSTHAUS, ZURICH, JULY-SEPTEMBER, 2004 IMAGES COURTESY OF GAVIN BROWN ENTERPRISES, NEW YORK Urs Fischer was born in Zurich in 1973, and has […]

Viewers soon discover the drawings possess a perverse humor. Fischer wants the drawing to be both serious and funny. For Fischer immediacy and directness come before dexterity and design. SOME OTHER SPRING: Urs Fischer Part 2 By Horace Brockington Viewers soon discover the drawings possess a perverse humor. Fischer wants the drawing to be both […]

Through the medium of analog photography, Lorenza Lucchi Basili invites us to look at a new form of reality, a reality that emerges from the isolation of the structures that surround us. Emergences By Michael David Wickerson     Lorenza Lucchi Basili, Space fifty, Lille (right), Space forty-nine, Chicago (far left), installation: c-prints on aluminum, […]

An American Stuckist?s Perspective on the Liverpool Biennial LIVERPOOL BIENNIAL: Stuck In Liverpool By Jesse Richards Peter Johansson, Swedish Red House. Photo by Jesse Richards Stuck In Liverpool An American Stuckist?s Perspective on the Liverpool Biennial and the Stuckists Punk Victorian at the Walker As our coach pulled into Liverpool?s Norton Street Station, I felt […]

The first full-scale exhibition celebrating what the catalogue rightfully calls "the art, pioneering teaching methods and spirit" of Friedl Dicker-Brandeis (1898-1944) has recently opened at the Jewish Museum. Friedl Dicker-Brandeis By Harriet Zinnes The first full-scale exhibition celebrating what the catalogue rightfully calls "the art, pioneering teaching methods and spirit" of Friedl Dicker-Brandeis (1898-1944) has […]

Agnes Denes: Projects for Public Spaces" is a retrospective exhibition of this visionary artist’s public projects and proposals. Agnes Denes: A Retrospective Looking Ahead By Dan Mills, Curator Crystal Fort—Nieuwe Hollandse Waterlinie, 2000. Original design of a full size fortress made of glass, to be built along the Waterlinie as a major tourist attraction to […]

We stare at our own backyards, hack trails through the rainforest, paddle through overgrown rivers, wade into swamps even as something pulls thickly at our boots. When we reach what feels like a destination, we turn and map the way for others. Maps of the Imagination: The Writer as Cartographer, Peter Turchi.By Emily Lodish Cover […]

There are personalities throughout art history who are creators not only of their art but also of their everyday life: artists driven by a constant urge to shape or rearrange everything they encounter. Tobias Regensburger: Art — Life — Survival By Christian Schoen Tobias Regensburger – The Art of Survival       There are […]